LILLIAN YVONNE RAMIREZ MATIAS

LILLIAN YVONNE RAMÍREZ MATÍAS

Email: yramirez@fcg.org.gt

• University San Carlos de Guatemala.  Industrial Engineering Studies
• Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences -FLACSO-. Post-Graduate Course "Society, Environment and Development

Roles/functions performed

• November 2024 to date. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mesoamerican Reef System Fund (MARFUND or MAR Fund)
• April 2024 to date. President of the Mesoamerican Committee of Members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
• 2023 to date. Vice-Chair of the Guatemalan National Committee of IUCN Members
• 2020-2023. President of the Guatemalan National Committee of IUCN Members
• 2016 to November 2024. Secretary of the Board of Directors of MARFUND, representing FCG, of which, together with three other organizations from each of the countries of the Mesoamerican reef system (Mexico, Belize and Honduras), FCG is a founding member for Guatemala
• 2008 to date. Executive Director of the Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources and Environment in Guatemala (FCG), the managing entity of the Fund for the Conservation of Tropical Forests, the result of a $24 million debt swap between the United States of America and Guatemala
• From 2008 to 2016.  Treasurer of the Board of Directors of MARFUND
• 2000-2008. Executive Manager of the National Fund for the Conservation of Nature (FONACON) of Guatemala, and, on its behalf, member of the Steering Committee of the Network of Environmental Funds of Latin America and the Caribbean -REDLAC-
• 1990-2000. Project Assistant and General Manager of the Mario Dary Rivera Foundation for the Conservation of the Environment and Natural Resources (FUNDARY), at that time co-administrator of the Special Protection Area, currently the Punta de Manabique Wildlife Refuge, a coastal marine protected area located in the Guatemalan Caribbean, by whose legal declaration by the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala,   arduous lobbying work was carried out before the National Council of Protected Areas and the Congress of the Republic, among other entities

Skills and knowledge

• Administrative and financial management of projects
• Strategic direction and guidance of non-governmental organizations, co-administrative entities of protected areas, financial mechanisms and grant funds
• Formation and coordination of working groups
• Relationship and advocacy with different public and private entities in the environmental and natural resources sector at national and regional level

In-country experience

• Management of non-profit organizations, dedicated to the conservation and protection of natural resources and the environment, leading programs, projects and funds of national importance.
• Representation of FCG before different forums at the national level